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Brand New!! Ten Finalists For £100K Fine Art Fund Prize For Museum Of The Twelvemonth 2013

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Continuing the topic of museums - nosotros forthwith bring the names of the 10 museums too fine art galleries selected every bit finalists in the £100,000 Tom Thomson too the Group of Seven
Visitors: In 2011-2012 the Gallery enjoyed its second-highest visitor figures always (149, 000 visitors)
Website: http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/

Location: Gallery Walk, Wakefield West Yorkshire WF1 5AW
Venue: David Chipperfield's £35 1000000 edifice - providing 10 grayness trapezoidal boxes, each housing a gallery space, laid correct adjacent to the River Calder - which gives it a really impressive appearance (see photograph at top). 
Purpose: One of the UK’s largest purpose-built galleries for populace fine art exterior London.  Unites operate from the city’s fine art collection amongst exhibitions past times contemporary artists too rarely seen industrial plant past times the renowned sculptor Barbara Hepworth inward the metropolis where she was born too grew up
Visitors: Over 385,000 visitors inward 2012 (more than 900,000 visitors since the gallery opened inward May 2011)

Location: 100 London Road, Forest Hill London SE23 3PQ (it's non far from Dulwich Picture Gallery)
Venue: three-year unification projection completed inward 2012 - to unify collections too gardens
Purpose: A somewhat strange mixture of internationally of import collections of anthropology too musical instruments addition an acclaimed aquarium too natural history gallery PLUS 16 acres of landscaped gardens offering dramatic views of London
Visitors: non available

Location: Argyle Street, Glasgow Strathclyde G3 8AG
Venue: £35 1000000 refurbishment inward 2006, i of the pinnacle 100 Art Museums inward the world
Purpose: home to internationally renowned collections too exhibitions
Visitors: 10 1000000 visitors, exploring 22 themed galleries, since it reopened inward 2006
  
Location: Downing Street, Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 3DZ
Venue: two-year redevelopment was completed inward 2012. Recently reopened amongst a novel street entrance too refurbished the world flooring galleries which brand the collections to a greater extent than accessible to the public
Purpose: One of i of viii accredited University of Cambridge Museums too Collections. World-class University collections of art, ethnographic artefacts too archaeological discoveries. The latter twain nearly 2 1000000 years of human history, on all vi inhabited continents. Plus  new display dedicated to the archeology too history of Cambridge too its region.
Visitors: 24,596 betwixt 25 May until terminate September 2012 (reduced to museum closure)

Location: Bonded Stores, Church Street, Narberth Pembrokeshire SA67 7BH
Venue: Museum located inward a of late renovated industrial warehouse (a one-time bonded stores originally built to household vino too spirit).
Purpose: The collection celebrates the trades, crafts, organisations, people too buildings of the Welsh marketplace position town of Narberth.  The museum is a contemporary cultural hub for the local surface area where people tin plough over the sack engage amongst their pasts. It is run mainly past times an enthusiastic too dedicated squad of volunteers.
Visitors: not available

Location: Yarm Road, Eaglescliffe, Stockton-on-Tees Cleveland TS18 3RH
Venue: Grade 2 Listed edifice located inward 100 acres of parkland - opened every bit a museum too common past times Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council inward 1953 too relaunched inward 2012.  Recent refurbishment, restoration too redevelopment projection costing £7 1000000  and lasting nearly 3 years has made museum collection more accessible
Purpose: Combination of historic house too local history museum telling the story of Stockton. Includes community curated space too the temporary exhibitions gallery.
Visitors: not available - of late reopened
Location: Lloyd Park, Forest Road, Walthamstow London E17 4PP
Venue: Housed inward a Georgian house; recent major redevelopment has provided transformed Gallery spaces, novel didactics facilities too an extension. 
Purpose: the William Morris Gallery is the exclusively gallery inward Britain dedicated to the leader of the Arts too Crafts movement.  It forthwith engages the local community past times displaying Morris too what he was well-nigh past times reinterpreting him for a 21st century audience
Visitors: c.100,000 visitors since it reopened inward August 2012 amongst tape numbers participating inward events programme

The Winner....

If you lot heed inward to BBC Radio 4’s Front Row you'll necessitate heed winner volition live announced alive from the abide by ceremony at the V&A museum inward London on iv June 2013.

Museum of the Year Photography Competition

You tin plough over the sack notice details of how to larn into the Museum of the Year Photography Competition on the Art Fund website.   Check out the pretty prissy prizes which include an iPad!

They're looking for the most innovative, atmospheric too fifty-fifty humorous images of the 10 museum finalists – from a beautiful epitome of the façade to a snap of your favourite object – your pic volition creatively capture the spirit of the museum.

Read the terms too conditions carefully. The finally telephone band for entries is Midweek xv May.

History of the Museum of the Year Prize

The Prize started inward 2001 when The Museum Prize Trust was ready to create a major annual prize for museums too galleries inward the UK.

The thought was that at that spot would live i major too prestigisous prize rather than several smaller too lower profile prizes.  The alter involved cooperation between the Museums Association (excellent website!), The Art Fund (current organisers), National Heritage (the museums activity drive - which doesn't seem to bring been really active of late), and the Campaign for Museums (archived website) who all agreed to lend their back upwardly to a unmarried major Prize.

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